Slow Return For Hospitals Hit by Sandy

By

Joseph De Avila And

Josh Dawsey

Nov. 19, 2012 10:52 p.m. ET

Bellevue Hospital Center, a critical New York City trauma facility, won't be able to reopen its emergency room until December at the earliest. It will take until January to make Coney Island Hospital fully operational again.

And neither NYU Langone Medical Center nor the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Manhattan have a firm timetable for reopening, officials said Monday.